Popularity Might Not Be Enough — LET'S say you wanted to build an advertising-supported online media business that took in $50 million a year in revenue. How many users would you have to attract to get there? — Probably too many for most people to even try, if the numbers run by Jeremy Liew …

Why Online Advertising Economics Are So Messed Up — We've all heard that page views are dying. Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed pointed out a few weeks ago the problem with scaling an online advertising business based on revenue per thousand page views, an analysis which has now been picked up by the Dan Mitchell at the NYT.

Honoring the Hard Working Blue Collar Bloggers — While a lot of people rant on about the A-List and Z-List of bloggers, Tony Hung of Deep Jive Interests offers "A List Types Refuse to Acknowledge Blogging's Blue Collar Class": … The article defends PayPerPost and other advertising …

Online Firms Boot Up for Political Campaigns — Howard Dean was dubbed the Internet candidate in the 2004 presidential race, but his efforts to campaign online seem primitive compared to the services companies are touting for next year's election. — From creating video games starring candidates …

NY Times on Twitter — Okay, I got the bugs worked out, and it seems to work, fingers crossed, praise Murhpy, I am not a lawyer and I don't work for the NY Times. — It's set to post one new story per minute, as long as they are available. I may decrease that to once every three minutes or every five minutes.

Non-Google search news — This post has a snarkiness level of 6 out of 10. If your body can't handle me being snarky on rare occasions, you should leave now. Because I noticed a few interesting non-Google tidbits in search news this week. — Barry found a claim that if you participate …

Online mind mapping using MindMeister and bubbl.us — Mind mapping has been increasingly becoming a popular method for brainstorming or list-making. As anyone that has put a mind map up on a projector and used it to lead a meeting knows, mind maps can be an impressive and very useful …

Firefox Community Beta Program — During the run up to Firefox 2, we released beta builds and release candidates for wide testing and feedback as part of a community beta program. Anyone who downloaded and installed these pre-release versions of Firefox became part of this beta program …

Yahoo Japan Launches Digg Clone : Minna No Topics — Yahoo Japan has launched their version of a social news sharing site with a Digg-esque feel; Minna No Topics (Everyone's Topics). — The service lets Yahoo Japan users submit different stories under multiple categories and then users …

Twittering Your Home — Interest in the messaging service Twitter is clearly on the rise (see this Wall Street Journal article if you're not already familiar with it), and while most people are figuring out how to use Twitter for its intended purpose-social networking-I'd like to share …